On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 8:51 PM, Jim Lee <jle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Languages that used to be small, lean, and exceptional at doing things > really well in a given domain have morphed into large, monolithic, bloated > language *systems* that do many things in many domains, and have many ways > to do the *same* thing, but none of it particularly well. Throwing more > processor horsepower and more GB of memory at the problem can only mask it > for so long. >
I used to write useful programs that ran in 256 bytes of RAM. Back then, the phone in my pocket right now would've been a supercomputer. The fact of the matter is the economics have changed a lot since then. Machine time used to be really expensive compared to developer time. Today, it's the opposite: developer time is really expensive compared to machine time. It doesn't make much sense anymore to wring one's hands about "throwing" more computer power at a problem. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
